Andaman Misplaced The ’Black’ Tag; Why Get It Again With Intercourse-for-Jobs & Jail Scandals?

An excessive personification of this equation is the latest accusation within the sex-for-jobs/rape case attributed onto a senior and now-suspended official of the Andaman and Nicobar Administration.

The Calcutta High Court has directed the mentioned official to seem earlier than the Special Investigation Team (SIT) and the matter is sub judice.

It is essential to let the legislation take its course with the required rigour and diligence, as additionally to chorus from commenting or opining particularly on the people involved, with out contributing something new that’s already there within the criticism sheets and public area.

To put it mildly, it’s unprecedented in its significance for each the ‘Islanders’ and the accused officers (not everything of the ‘Administration’) for its implied wounds and future ramifications.

As the writer had by no means labored with the accused officers (despite the fact that he’s believed to have had an earlier stint within the Islands within the early 90’s), one would reasonably give attention to situations that always leads and breeds hubris, disinterest and even misuse of officialdom, in these distant Islands.

It is an indisputable fact that postings to locations like Andaman and Nicobar are continuously thought of ‘punishment postings’ throughout the AGMUT (Union Territory/Mizoram/Goa/Delhi) cadre, from which the senior employees of the native ‘Administration’ is empaneled.

This can typically result in disgruntled, ‘parked’ and even vengeful angle by some. In my private expertise the odd case of official searching for repatriation to ‘Mainland’, resorting to ‘time serving’ techniques or just ‘not reporting to duty’ was not unprecedented. It needed to be handled individually.

Conversely, the bodily distance from the metaphorical ‘Delhi’ might lend itself to a false sense of entitlement and energy, for the unhinged – fortunately not many had been like that.

However, given the disproportionate reliance on the officialdom for the day-to-day sustenance of the Islanders onto the native ‘administration’ (owing to the restricted personal alternatives/investments, protected forest areas and overarching reliance on authorities companies), made the native ‘Administration’ much more intrusive and highly effective as in comparison with their friends in the remainder of the nation.

Often the native voice of discontent wouldn’t attain the supposed quarters and the native politicos additional reaped the simmering animus in the direction of much more polarisation, divides and mistrust. The twain between the ‘Mainlanders’ and ‘Islanders’ remained basically unmet. The curse of Kala Pani for either side of the created ‘divide’, actually survived.